This week on Winnipeg Internet Pundits was one-third-repeat and two-thirds-new, because it snowed on Wednesday and roads are impassable when y'all keep driving into each other. (I passed four -- four! -- accidents on my way to the University, including one that snarled Pembina southbound for the better part of forever. Manitoba has the nation's lowest rate of winter-tire use, just coincidentally.)

Speaking of radio -- segue! -- remember the CKUW 95.9 mystery show that Scott Price and I had collaborated on earlier this month? We spent an hour on the airwaves gushing over some of our favourite bass performances, and I am pleased to report that the audio of that show is now mirrored here for your listening and downloading pleasure. (Also, I couldn't resist: to honour the death of Winamp, I've listed the ID3 genre as "Primus".)

So congratulations to James Beddome on the completion of his law degree, and all the best to him in his future endeavours; he was truly a politician of a different age. By which I mean, he looked a lot like the Tenth Doctor, and we're already up to the Twelfth Doctor now.

(before anyone spoils that joke, c'mon man don't, I saw the same Moffat blurb you did but don't be that guy to everyone else)

Also on the provincial newsbeat, here it is, your weekly Provencher facepalm:

This sparked a bit of a flurry of activity around Morris' Wikipedia entry, but nothing they couldn't handle; they are, after all, not unaccustomed to this attention.

Morris residents (Morrisettes?) facing community discrimination for their ethnicity or their sexuality can't hope for altogether much in support from their elected representatives; newly-elected MP Ted Falk is not known for his sensitivity, and it's increasingly starting to seem like Morris might never have an MLA again. (291 days vacant as of today, and counting.) That leaves the Mayor of Morris to try and handle it all himself; he finds himself writing a lot of letters and doing a lot of interviews, these days. I hope it's working! I hope that's working for him.

Man, Morris, you're discouraging. I wish I had something more tangible and measurable to pitch here than "please stop being awful to other human beings", but for now let's go with that as the vision statement and we can hash out a mission statement from there.

Well! In the interest of not being a total downer, let's move from adults being awful to children being adorable.

Free Press editor/producer/photographer/multimedia wizard/so on and so forth Melissa Tait tasked herself with taking fifty photos over fifty days with a 50mm lens; taking them these particular fifty days has offered plenty of funwithshots, but this post in particular warrants and then delivers a lifetime's worth of supplementary character notes.

Christian-modern-rock station IGNITE 107.1 FM was never exactly a ratings juggernaut (he says, generously), so last year Golden West applied for and received CRTC permission to flip its format and run a commercial classical-music(!) station in its place. Hooray for musical diversity!

The switch has most certainly already happened -- I've tuned in just now out of curiosity and, yep, there it is -- but it must've only happened very, very recently. It has no website or webstream, I don't detect any social media presence, and if there was advertising I'd missed it; in fact, just as I typed that it played a promo blurb describing itself in the future tense, and as best I can tell it's billing itself simply as "CLASSIC FM 107.1" right now.

Ooh, the blurb just mentioned jazz as well! That could be either really great or really terrible. (Well, I suppose it could be really great and really terrible; 'jazz' has a whole lot of room in it.) I don't know about you, but I'm finding myself rather disproportionately stoked about this. So far so good, from what I'm hearing of it! Give it a listen, see if you dig it.

Thank you once again for reading ManLinkWeek! If you'd wondered why there seemed to be a lot less Winnipeg than usual in this week's edition, that's because next week may very well end up ALL Winnipeg. Preliminary-budget fallout! South Pembina transformations! Scott Fielding pitching increasingly wide accountability sweeps! (My guess for next week's proposal: sentient giant-robot auditors.) And more! So get ready, everyone; December's fixing to be quite the month.

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